272 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 128]

vided; and in all cases where a treasurer has taken steps for
the enforcement of the payment of said taxes, and shall retire
or die before the collection of said taxes, or before said pro-
ceedings are completed, his successor is empowered and required
to continue and complete said proceedings for the enforcement
of the payment of said taxes, and to collect the same; and is
hereby clothed with all the power and authority in law had by
the retiring treasurer during his term of office for that purpose.

262s. The County Commissioners of Harford County shall
annually levy such sums of money as they shall deem sufficient
to pay the expenses which may be incurred during the succeed-
ing year by the attendance of jurors, State witnesses, crier and
bailiffs of the Circuit Court, together with any expenses of said
Court which they may be required to pay, and it shall be the
duty of the treasurer to pay said expenses to the individual
entitled to receive the same whenever the amount so payable
shall be duly certified to him by said Court, and upon his fail-
ure to pay any such sum when so certified to the person entitled
to receive the same, the said Treasurer shall forfeit and pay to
every such person for every such failure the sum of one dollar,
to be recovered as other small sums are recovered, before a jus-
tice of the peace, together with the cost of suit; the said Court
shall not issue to the individual entitled to receive any of the
expense aforesaid, except witnesses, any evidence that such
sums are due, but the same shall be certified directly to said
treasurer, and the said treasurer, before paying the same shall
deduct from the respective amounts due as aforesaid any sum
or sums of money due and owing by the said individual to the
said county for taxes or otherwise; but said treasurer shall pay
no Court expenses save the per diem of jurors, State witnesses,
crier and bailiffs, unless the bills for the same shall have been
first submitted to and approved by the County Commissioners
of Harford County, as provided in sections 66 to 69, inclusive,
of said Article 13.

262L. On the first day of February in each year the treas-
urer shall make up a list of all delinquent taxpayers and the
amounts for which they are respectively in arrears, adding to
each bill one dollar for costs and the cost of advertising same,
and publish the same once in each of two successive weeks
before the 23rd day of February, and if said taxes and costs
are unpaid on that day he shall immediately thereafter make
up a list of all delinquents assessed with real estate, giving the
name of the persons assessed, with a brief description of the
property, the district of its location and such references to
conveyances as will render the same possible of identification,